Steve Hooper Joins Integrated Data Communications Board of Directors

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WA – Airbiquity, a leading provider of wireless location technology and mobile data solutions to businesses, consumers and public safety organizations, announced the appointment of Steven W. Hooper to the company's Board of Directors. A co-founder of Ignition Corp., a new wireless Internet venture firm, Hooper played a key role in IDC's Round C Financing, which closed with $17.5 million in March.

Hooper has served as vice chairman of NEXTLINK Communications (NASDAQ:NXLK), where he was responsible for developing strategic business opportunities. Prior to joining NEXTLINK, he served as Craig McCaw's co-CEO of Teledesic, McCaw and Bill Gates' Internet-in-the-sky, global broadband satellite venture. Hooper has also held senior management positions at McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services. Hooper holds an MBA from the Wharton school and serves on the boards of NEXTLINK and Teledesic.

"We're extremely pleased to welcome Steve to our Board. His expertise in this industry is invaluable," said Dan Allen, President and CEO of IDC.

IDC is driving the integration of high-value data and location-based products and services using mass-market wireless communications devices, including wireless phones. The company entered the location technology market in 1997 with the development of a voice channel (i.e., call path) protocol that helps its customers save lives, enhance productivity and manage assets by enabling the delivery of highly accurate location information to commercial enterprises, consumers and public safety organizations. IDC's technology, which integrates location information in the voice channel of all wireless networks, can therefore report the location of wireless callers without any changes to existing landline, wireless and Internet infrastructures.